In the past week we released Infinite Potions (tables to describe potions) and Infinite Trinkets (tables to give you a nearly unlimited number of unique trinkets.) These followed up on our prior Infinite Tomes product. Now we’ve added Infinite Menus! The …

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A couple of days ago we released Infinite Trinkets –several charts to give you a nearly unlimited number of combinations of unique trinkets. That followed up on our prior Infinite Tomes product. Now we’ve released Infinite Potions! Adding detailed descriptions …

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As you probably know, we at Inkwell Ideas love random charts.  (Some prior examples: Spicing Up the Empty/Mundane Room, Random Charts for “Spell Accents”, Coin Description Generator (Random Table), Random Unusual Weather Table, Random Magic Fountain/Pool Effects Chart, Hexmap Alphabetical …

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The art of the empty room is a curious line to walk.  On the one hand you want to keep things interesting… otherwise the players will meta-game that the room with no/little description has nothing worth discovering.  On the other …

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I’ve recently put together the first draft of what I’m referring to as a Spell “Accents” Chart.  It helps describe what the magical effects of a spell look like, smell like, etc.  Of course the term “Spell Descriptions” is already …

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Recently there have been a few questions about how to edit a map created with Dungeonographer’s built-in random map generator.  So this article describes the reason and process. To allow rooms to be shown or hidden, rooms and even corridor …

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This is a chart of Random Unusual Weather Phenomena.  I’d typically track the weather by rolling for whether the temperature goes up or down from the day before and roll separately if there is precipitation.  But on a very unusual …

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Jack McNamee and Matt Rundle are working toward a book of random wilderness encounters & tables called “Dangertopia.” Think of it as something like the Dungeon Alphabet book, but wilderness-centric and hopefully with more content. You can read more at …

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A couple of days ago I announced the first version of a completely new and different city map generator.  This city generator is much more dynamic than my prior city map generator from a few months ago.  However, at the …

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A couple of months ago I put together a template based random city map generator.  Then a few weeks ago I did a random village generator (using SVG graphic in that case.) But I always wanted to do something much …

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